ACTUALLY THERE WERE MORE ACCOMPLICES INVOLVED IN HRANT DINK’S MURDER

PanARMENIAN.Net
12.07.2007 17:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The murder of Hrant Dink was planned by a bigger
network than just the gang that is currently on trial, editor-in-chief
of ‘Agos’ Armenian-Turkish bilingual Etyen Mahcupyan stated in an
interview to Der Spiegel German newspaper. He said, a number of police
officers knew what was going to happen. But they didn’t prevent the
murder of Dink.

"Critics have accused the authorities of failing to act on reports
of a plot to kill Dink. Two of the suspects, Yasin Hayal and Erhan
Tuncel, even claim they were working for the security forces. The
current case is seen as an important test of whether the Turkish
judiciary is capable of investigating claims of official negligence,"
Der Spiegel writes.

According to the editor-in-chief of ‘Agos’ bilingual, the aim was
probably to cause unrest in the election year with the intention of
torpedoing Turkey’s chances of joining the European Union, "Presumably
a whole series of attacks was planned, but the public reaction was too
strong to go ahead with them." "In the past the judges were usually
afraid to take risks. None of them wanted to expose the links between
the military, the government and the judiciary. But in this case there
is the potential to really get to the bottom of things. The judges are
flexible and are working with the lawyers," he underlined. Answering
the question if he had received threats concerning his work, Etyen
Mahcupyan said "not at the moment", but if it were politically desired
then someone could find an old article and file charges, since he had
already been put on trial for allegedly ‘insulting state institutions’.